Tech FocusElectronically Overhauling the Homo SapienNeil Harbisson, 32, can receive phone calls directly into his head. He can perceive colours invisible to the human eye

Buyers’ GuideTouch-Screen, Wireless and Detachable Displays Make Modern Multimeters Exciting From general-purpose to high-end measurements, multimeters are widely-used tools

Tech FocusPretty and Purposeful Wearables Smartwatches, smartglasses and fitness wearables have been much talked about in the past year

InnovationStridalyzer: A Uniquely-Designed Wearable for Runners Runners are among those lucky groups of people who are in the spotlight of the tech industry

EmbeddedWhat You Ought to Know About Designing Memory into Embedded Systems The era of data and information explosion is upon us. A 10.2cm (4-inch) iPhone today has 128GB of storage, which is far more storage than that of an average desktop computer from 15 years ago

EmbeddedBattle of the SoCs Gone are the days when mobile phones were considered a luxury. Nowadays, necessity is the best way to describe these

FuturisticTuning to Terahertz Electronics The terahertz (THz) region (nominally 0.1-10THz) separates electronics from photonics, and has historically been difficult to access

Test & MeasurementSeven Ways to Effectively Use Today’s Feature-Heavy Scopes Since its inception, the oscilloscope is one test and measurement product that has seen a lot of transformations to deal with the needs of new technological advancements

Defence ElectronicsPrecision-Guided Munitions: Laser-Guided Munitions (Part 2 of 4) Laser-guided munitions are the most widely exploited electro-optically-guided precision-strike munitions on various land based, sea based and airborne military platforms, such as main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, ships, fighter aircrafts and attack helicopters

EFY Plus DVDThis Month’s DVD Contents This month’s DVD is a collection of a variety of electronics software, ranging from the PCB design suite from Cadence to the semiconductor simulator for submicron and nanoscale devices. Make sure to try the free e-adventure for all your fun creations

SecurityTowards an Extra Layer of Security: The Cost of Two-Factor Authentication (Part 3 of 3) By now, we know what two-factor authentication (TFA) is and how it can be an extremely useful security tool. In this concluding part of the article, we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of TFA, along with various tokens/services available in the market for activating TFA

Interview"Programmable SoMs based on an FPGA have both sequential processing and broad massive parallel programmable logic processing..." In this interview, we take a look at what programmable SoCs powered by field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can offer a design engineer. Ramani Sundaresan, managing director, India, and Bryan Fletcher, global technical marketing director, Avnet Electronics Marketing, speak with Dilin Anand of EFY at the X-Fest 2014 event in Bengaluru

Interview"Wearable devices are intensely personal" Smartwatches, wristbands, goggles and soles—the variety of wearable electronics in the market has delightfully surged in the last year. In this interview, we take a look at the intricacies of designing a wearable device. Anshuman Singh and Shuvadeep Sarkar, co-founders of ReTiSense, speak with Dilin Anand of EFY

InterviewMany disciplines are now involved in getting a final electronic product out of the drawing board This discussion takes a look at how electronics design tools have evolved and what new challenges these can now help solve. Elmar Dukek, EMEA VAR manager, and Sreekanth Tammana, country manager—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Altium Europe GmbH, speak with Dilin Anand from EFY

Buyers’ GuideBe Smart When Buying a Smartwatch Smartwatches have grown from just being a fad to a lifestyle necessity. Makers of smartwatches have pointed out on various occasions that the segment has not grown at the expected pace, but this is likely to change in 2015

Make in IndiaMarket Survey: LED Lighting and Automotive Industry to Boost SMT Equipment Demand With an enormous increase in the demand for smaller and efficient electronic products, the surface mount technology (SMT) is now at a boom

Useful WebsitesAll about FPGAs Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are programmable digital logic chips that can be used to create our own digital circuit. This month we highlight a few websites that will introduce and help you learn more about these programmable semiconductor devices

Tech NewsSkin based device can now convert muscle movements into electricity A team of researchers from National University of Singapore, Singapore, has developed a new method to charge wearable gadgets

Make in IndiaGovernment to focus on solar and other green sources of energy PM Modi wants his government to focus on solar and other green sources of energy

Make in IndiaConnectors BarGuide connectors are developed to meet the ever-evolving demands for high-power distribution in high-density packaging and these are used to provide high-amperage connections between busbars and circuit boards

EFY Plus DVDMyHDL: A Python Based Hardware Description Language Conventionally, the design of digital hardware systems is done using a specialised hardware description language (HDL), like VHDL and Verilog

DO-IT-YOURSELFMini Offline UPS Most of the systems are powered by AC mains. Uninterrupted power supply systems (UPSes) are there as a back-up to power the systems when mains supply is interrupted due to a power cut

DO-IT-YOURSELF5V from Portable Wind Turbine This project deals with the design and development of a portable wind turbine unit, capable of generating electricity from the kinetic energy in the wind

DO-IT-YOURSELFLetterbox with Letter-Counting Facility Here is a circuit that starts counting when you insert a letter in the letterbox at your home or office

DO-IT-YOURSELFAudio Buffer and Line Driver with Low Quiescent Current Some of the pick-ups for guitars and other string instruments provide high output voltages

DO-IT-YOURSELFWireless Baby Monitor A baby monitor can help you find peace of mind. You can now monitor your sleeping baby with this wireless baby monitor

DO-IT-YOURSELFAnalogue Input on Raspberry Pi While you can connect your analogue input/output devices to Arduino very easily, it is not so easy with Raspberry Pi (Raspi)

DO-IT-YOURSELFHost Software for RFID Based Attendance Management System (Part 2 of 2) In the first part, we covered designing the user interface (UI) program, but that is not complete unless we include the service layer project and enable client-server interaction